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Patent EP-0531645-A2 (EP)
Inventor: EASTMAN JAY M
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 1992-07-03
Abstract: To increase the efficiency of personnel conducting inventory management operations, including data entry of products and information as to their absence, presence or location, the user is provided with a headset having a band extending around the head from which a microphone projects and also on which a bar code reader is located, preferably on the portion of the band which extends around the top of the head of the user. Electronics for processing signals from the microphone and from the reader and for operating a display to indicate either visually or audibly the codes which are read by the reader or are entered by pronouncing the names of alphanumeric characters is also mounted on the headset. The electronics includes a microprocessor and a speech recognition unit which translates the names and words into data stored in the memory associated with the microprocessor. This data can be read out into the visual or audible display (earphones in the headset providing the audible display or a heads up display on a screen in the field of view of the user). The data may also be transmitted to a remote location via a modem and transmitter. A transceiver may be associated with the modem for receiving instructions which are applied as digital data to the microprocessor and used to operate the display. The messages may also be preset messages which are contained in the memory associated with the microprocessor and read out into the display upon the pronouncement of voice commands by the user. The commands also actuate the code reader. The user, therefore, has his or her hands free for conducting inventory management operations including picking and placing of products as well as entry of product data either by optical code reading or by pronouncement of characters which are printed on the products.
Patent EP-0521521-A2 (EP)
Inventor: OKUNOMIYA SEIJI
IPC: B41J2/325
Filed: 1992-07-03
Abstract: In a thermal transfer recording according to the invention there are used an ink paper cassette (3) containing an ink paper (5) having ink layers, also containing an ink paper feed bobbin (4) with the ink paper (5) wound therearound, and further containing a take-up bobbin (4) for taking up the ink paper (5) fed from the feed bobbin(4), a recording paper (12), a platen roller (1), and a thermal head (21), the recording paper (12) and the ink paper (5) fed from the feed bobbin (4) are disposed in a superimposed manner on the platen roller (1) and are pressed toward the platen roller (1) from the ink paper side and heated by the thermal head (21), thereby allowing ink to be transferred to the recording paper (12) from the ink paper (5) in accordance with information provided to the thermal head (21). In this thermal transfer recording, a discrimination is made as to whether the ink paper cassette (3) is a first ink paper cassette which contains a first ink paper having only ink layers or a second ink paper cassette which contains a second ink paper (5) having both a receiving layer and ink layers. If the ink paper cassette (3) is judged to be the first ink paper cassette, a first recording paper having a receiving layer is selected, while if the ink paper cassette (3) is judged to be the second ink paper cassette, a second recording paper not having a receiving layer is selected. Consequently, ink is transferred to the selected recording paper (12) from the ink paper (5) contained in the ink paper cassette (3).
Patent EP-0525560-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VOLLRATH THOMAS DIPL-ING BA
IPC: B23B31/00
Filed: 1992-07-18
Abstract: A quick change chuck (10) for receiving a tool shank (11) of circular cross-section, for example that of a stirring-implement shaft, has a chuck sleeve (2), in the interior of which is fixed a sleeve one-way clutch (3) which locks in the direction of rotation of the drive, i.e. during driving takes along in the direction of rotation the shank (11) gripped with frictional engagement in the one-way clutch (3) without the necessity for a clamping operation beforehand. Fixing in the axial direction can be accomplished either by a small clamping force or by a largely automatic clamping device. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0529345-A2 (EP)
Inventor: REGNIER KENT E
IPC: H01R12/82
Filed: 1992-08-01
Abstract: A card edge connector assembly includes a printed circuit card (10) having an edge (12) and a plurality of first conductive pads (20) arranged in a pattern on one side of the card near the edge, and a plurality of second conductive pads (22) arranged in a pattern on the opposite side of the card spaced inwardly of the edge and the first conductive pads. An elongated housing (24) is provided with a card receiving slot (25) for receiving the edge of the printed circuit card. A plurality of pairs of contact elements (32a, 32b) are mounted in the housing along the length of the slot. Each pair of contact elements includes a short contact element having a spring contact portion (78) for engaging one of the first conductive pads, and a long contact element having a spring contact portion for engaging one of the second conductive pads. The contact portions of each pair of contact elements are spatially overlapped each other in a direction transversely of the slot to increase the deflection capabilities of the contact elements.
Patent EP-0534178-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MARTINOWITZ URI DR
IPC: A61L24/10
Filed: 1992-09-02
Abstract: A tissue glue is described comprising a component A which comprises a cryoprecipitate of whole blood and high an amount of a protease inhibitor corresponding to 3,000 to 5,000 KIU units of approtinin, and 
a component B comprising a proteolytic enzyme being capable of cleaving specifically fibrinogen present in component A and causing the formation of a fibrine polymer. 
     In another embodiment an improved tissue glue is described comprising a component A which comprises a cryoprecipitate of whole blood, and 
a component B comprising a proteolytic enzyme obtainable from snake venom which enzyme is capable of cleaving specifically fibrinogen present in component A and causing the formation of a fibrine polymer.
Patent EP-0508632-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BEETHE DOUGLAS C
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 1992-03-20
Abstract: Disclosed in an iconic programming system process for processing the icons within an iconic network. When a user starts execution of the iconic system, the system first separates the icons into a list of threads, and creates a pending queue and a done stack for each thread. Execution then starts by selecting the first icon in the pending queue of the first thread within the system, processing the icon, and placing the icon on the done stack. After all icons on the pending queue are processed, icons are removed from the done stack and a sequence signal is sent on the sequence output for the icon. If a service request is received, the subthread hosted by an active service request icon is immediately made the highest priority, and processing continues with this subthread until the subthread is completely processed.
Patent EP-0523850-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CLEEREMAN ROBERT JOHN
IPC: B62K5/01
Filed: 1992-06-12
Abstract: A plastic monocoque body assembly (10) for a lawn tractor is comprised of upper and lower members (14,12) bonded together to provide transversely spaced hollow compartments (68,70) to withstand concentrated torsional and bending loads. Additional hollow compartments (72,74,76,78,80) are provided in the center and front portions of the assembly.
Patent EP-0509967-A2 (EP)
Inventor: CIABATTI PIERO
IPC: A23G9/28
Filed: 1992-04-02
Abstract: This invention concerns a device for the automatic dosing of creamy hand made ice-cream consisting of a container in which the ice cream is submitted to the action of a compressed air piston which tends to push it constantly towards the outflow opening on the bottom of the container; said outflow opening has a mechanism which temporarily widens the opening so that the ice cream may be supplied - and then closes it.
Patent EP-0562595-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ISHIBASHI HIROMICHI
IPC: G11B7/09
Filed: 1993-03-25
Abstract: An optical head positioning apparatus for use with an optical disk carrier (10) with track marks of alternately differing detection polarities provided in a spiral with an odd number of track marks per single track cycle is disclosed. The apparatus has a reading head (11) for reading track marks, a tracking error detector (2) for detecting a tracking error and producing a pulsating error signal, a pulse signal inverter (1, 3, 4) for inverting the polarity of every other pulsating error signal, and producing a sinusoidal error signal. The apparatus further has a peak detector (5) for detecting a peak of the sinusoidal error signal, a one-revolution detector (8) for detecting one revolution of the disk carrier (10), and a sinusoidal signal inverter (8, OR gate, 3) for inverting the polarity of the sinusoidal error signal in response to each one revolution of the optical disk carrier. An acceleration signal is produced in response to the detection of one-revolution of the disk carrier to accelerate the head means (11) in a radial direction of the disk carrier, and a deceleration signal is produced in response to the detection of the peak of the error signal to decelerate the reading head means.
Patent EP-0569902-A2 (EP)
Inventor: AGNARSSON SNORRI
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1993-05-10
Abstract: In accordance with the present application, user interface functions in a computer application program are handled entirely separately from processing functions performed by an application program and the user interface is called from the application processing part of a program. Whenever the processing part of a program requires a user command, an open user interface system (OUIS) is called and begins interacting with the user. Eventually, the user selects some operation that requires the attention of the processing part of the program. The OUIS then stops interacting with the user and returns control to the processing part. When the requested processing is completed, the processing part calls the OUIS again (requests the next operation) and the OUIS resumes interaction with the user. The elements defining the interface are arranged in a tree, and user actions typically require updating the interaction status of elements in the user interface. Updating entire subtrees to update the user interface occurs in two stages: preupdating and postupdating. The user interface tree is not considered updated until all elements have been postupdated. Preupdating flows down the tree, with no element being preupdated until a preupdate has been made of its parent element, if any. Postupdating flows up the tree, with no element being postupdated until all subelements in its entire subtree has been postupdated. User interface descriptions are stored in special files, independent of the corresponding program. The interface can then be modified without affecting the logical functioning of the application program, and without having to modify the program.
Patent EP-0581152-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KUISL MAX DR RER NAT
IPC: H01L23/498
Filed: 1993-07-17
Abstract: The invention relates to making contact to multichip modules. Contact is made to the individual chips of the multichip module by the flip-chip technique. Contact bumps are deposited on a substrate and the chips are mounted on the contact bumps so that the contact areas of the individual ICs of the chips are connected to the contact bumps of the substrate by cold welding.
Patent EP-0605796-A2 (EP)
Inventor: STEVENS-WRIGHT DEBBIE
IPC: A61M25/01
Filed: 1993-12-03
Abstract: A steerable electrocardial catheter comprises an elongated flexible shaft and a flexible tip assembly connected to the distal end of the shaft. The tip assembly comprises a distal section and a proximal section coaxial with the shaft, the stiffness and length of the distal and proximal sections being selected to provide a predetermined curve configuration of the tip assembly when the distal section and/or proximal section is bent. A first pair of pull cables extending through the catheter is anchored at a first point in the tip assembly for bending the proximal section in a predetermined plane. A second pair of pull cables extending through the catheter is anchored at a second point in the tip assembly for bending the distal section in a predetermined plane. Any desired orientation of the bending planes is possible with the invention. A handle/actuator for use with a steerable catheter having a tip assembly and four pull cables for bending said tip assembly, comprises a housing containing rotary and linear actuators. The rotary actuator is in the form of a wheel rotatably supported in said housing with a portion of said wheel being accessible from the exterior of said housing. Two of the pull cables are anchored to the wheel such that clockwise rotation of the wheel applies tension to one pull cable and counter-clockwise rotation of the wheel applies tension to the second pull cable. The linear actuator comprises a slider mounted in said housing and means exterior of the housing for moving the slider linearly. The third and fourth pull cables are anchored to the slider such that linear movement of the slider in one direction applies tension to the third cable and linear movement of the slider in the opposite direction applies tension to the fourth cable.
Patent EP-0587257-A2 (EP)
Inventor: FIGDOR CARL G
IPC: B04B5/04
Filed: 1986-01-13
Abstract: Centrifugal apparatus for separating components of a biological mixture such as blood, comprising a plurality of co-rotating containers (1) spaced from and distributed evenly about the centrifugal axis, a first co-rotating liquid system for containing the biological mixture, said first liquid system comprising a primary source reservoir (2) in each container (1), at least one primary receiving reservoir (3) connected to said source reservoir (2) through a respective primary conduit (4), and primary pumping means for letting at least a portion of said biological mixture flow from the primary source (2) reservoir to said primary receiving reservoir (3) during centrifuging, the apparatus further comprising a co-rotating secondary liquid system (8) for compensating the decrease in weight of each of the containers resulting from the outflow of the portion of the biological mixture from the primary source reservoir in order to keep the apparatus in balance during pumping. The density of the secondary liquid is larger than that of the heaviest component of the mixture which is to be separated.
Patent EP-0567269-A2 (EP)
Inventor: BAYS LAURENCE EDWARD
IPC: H03K23/64
Filed: 1993-04-15
Abstract: A clock generator (10) is described for generating an output clock frequency (f so ) from an input clock frequency (fin) where the frequencies of the clocks are not integrally related. The division process is designed using the quotients of the Euclidean theorem for determining the greatest common divisor of two integers in such a way as to alleviate the adverse effects of jitter. Applications to oversampled sigma-delta codecs are described.
Patent EP-0570179-A2 (EP)
Inventor: WOODGATE GRAHAM JOHN
IPC: G02B30/27
Filed: 1993-05-10
Abstract: A three-dimensional display comprises a spatial light modulator (13), such as a liquid crystal display, sandwiched between first and second lenticular screens (12, 16). The pitch of the lenticules of the second screen (16) is an integral multiple of that of the first screen (12). The spatial light modulator (13) comprises a plurality of cells aligned with the lenticules of the first screen (12). A linear array of sequentially illuminated light sources (1-8) is focused by an optical system (10) into a plurality of collimated light beams with different angles of incidence on the first screen (12). For each illumination of the light sources, the spatial light modulator carries a plurality of 2D interlaced views.
Patent EP-0582389-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAROZZI RICHARD A
IPC: A47B97/04
Filed: 1993-07-09
Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for providing support for drawing media. The device has a first support member (30), a second support member (34) and one panel (40) having a drawing face. The panel (40) is supported by the first support member (30) and the second support member (34). The panel (40) has a drawing face oriented upwardly at an angle to the horizontal. The device can include a supply tray (50) for storing drawing supplies. The device can also include a second panel (44) having a drawing face.
Patent EP-0605208-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TANIOKA HIROSHI C O CANON KABU
IPC: H04N1/00
Filed: 1993-12-23
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method both offering a high-precision and general-purpose capability of identifying an image and performing appropriate processing depending on whether identification is effected. In the image processing apparatus and image processing method, image data is detected in visible and invisible light reflected from each of a target pixel and surrounding pixels. Based on the image data detected in visible and invisible light, a specific pattern is identified. The specific pattern appears substantially the same in color as a surrounding area under visible light but different in characteristic therefrom under invisible light, which is identified using the image data of the target pixel and surrounding pixels provided by a detector. The image processing apparatus is controlled depending on whether the identification is effected.
Patent EP-0632571-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GAMBARARA MARCELLO
IPC: H02M3/155
Filed: 1994-06-21
Abstract: DC-to-DC converter including a voltage generator, a load which is connected in series to the generator, an inductor which is connected in series to the terminal of a first polarity of the generator and to the load, an output capacitor which is connected in parallel to the load; the particularity of the converter resides in that an autotransformer is interposed between the inductor and the load and comprises four windings one of the terminals of which is connected to a single contact point which is connected to the inductor; the first and second windings are connected to switching means which are connected to the terminal of a second polarity of the generator; the third and fourth windings are connected to rectifier elements which are connected to the load; the voltage across the load is a function of the open/closed state of the switches.
Patent EP-0643172-A2 (EP)
Title: Brücke
Inventor: FUESSINGER REINHOLD
IPC: E01D15/133
Filed: 1994-07-27
Abstract: Die Erfindung betrifft eine Wannenbrücke mit einer ebenen Fahrbahn und nach oben gebauten Seitenwänden (SW), an deren oberen Enden die Obergurte (OG) angeordnet sind. Die Brücke ist längs der Fahrbahn in beliebig viele Module (B) geteilt, deren Länge der zur Verfügung stehende Transportlänge angepaßt werden kann. Die einzelnen Brückenmodule (B) können zum Transport ineinandergeschachtelt werden, so daß sich ein Stapel mit sehr kleiner Transporthöhe ergibt. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0651248-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MOSS ADRIAN JAMES
IPC: G01N33/18
Filed: 1994-09-26
Abstract: Water quality sensor apparatus comprising a substrate on which a plurality of sensors are supported in spaced apart relationship, each sensor being responsive to a different water characteristic and each sensor comprising a sensor region which, in use, is arranged to be contiguous with water the characteristics of which are to be sensed, which sensor regions are electrically connected to connector means via conductors supported on the substrate, the conductors and the connector means being arranged to be non-contiguous with the water in use of the apparatus.
Patent EP-0609996-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PALMER DOUGLAS L C O CANON INF
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1994-01-19
Abstract: Method and apparatus for storing document images, for creating a retrieval index by which the document images may be retrieved, and for displaying the retrieved document images. When a document image is obtained, the document image is subjected to rule-based block selection techniques whereby individual regions within the document region are identified, and the types of regions are also identified, such as title-type regions, text-type regions, line art-type regions, halftone-type regions and color image-type regions. The identification is used to create structural information and both the document image and the structural information is stored. A word-based retrieval index is created based on title-type regions and/or text-type regions, the retrieval index being used in conjunction with a search query so as to be able to retrieve documents which match the search query. The retrieved documents are displayed in either a full image mode or a rapid browsing mode. In the rapid browsing mode, the full image of the document is not displayed, but rather only an abstract structural view of the document image based on the stored structural information. The level of abstraction may be specified by the operator in connection with the identified structural regions of the document, whereby, for example, only a structural view is displayed, or only title-type regions are displayed mixed with remaining structure.
Patent EP-0625668-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RUSSELL JIM L
IPC: F16K11/056
Filed: 1994-02-22
Abstract: A gas line override valve for connecting an external gas source to an operational gas line includes a sleeve (10) having an inlet end (11) and an outlet end (13) adapted for series connection of the sleeve in the operational gas line, a hole (19) through a wall of the sleeve and a coupling secured in the hole having a passage in pneumatic communication between a first port in the coupling external of the sleeve and a second port in the coupling internal of the sleeve, the second port having an annular seat along a perimeter thereof. A cage extending from the second port into the sleeve loosely contains a ball of diameter greater than the diameter of the annular seat. The cage has openings therethrough for continuous pneumatic communication between the inlet and outlet ends of the sleeve. The ball is free to move into and out of abutting interface with the seat to close the second port when the pressure in the sleeve exceeds the pressure in the coupling passage and to open the second port when the pressure in the coupling passage exceeds the pressure in the sleeve.
Patent EP-0639699-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ABE FUMIO
IPC: F01N13/04
Filed: 1994-08-18
Abstract: 57 An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine is herein disclosed which comprises an exhaust system having an adsorption flow path provided with an adsorbent capable of adsorbing harmful components such as hydrocarbons in an exhaust gas, and a catalyst flow path provided with at least one catalyst for decreasing the harmful components in the exhaust gas, the exhaust gas purification system being characterized in that an outlet of the adsorption flow path is joined to the catalyst flow path at a predetermined position upstream of the catalyst to form a joint portion ; the exhaust gas produced at least at the time of the operation start of the internal combustion engine is divided so as to flow through both the paths of the adsorption flow path and the catalyst flow path in a predetermined ratio, so that part of harmful components such as the hydrocarbons are adsorbed by the adsorbent in the adsorption flow path ; and when the adsorbed harmful components begin to desorb from the adsorbent with the temperature rise of the adsorbent, the catalyst on the downstream of the joint portion is activated.